Alien: Covenant Red Band Trailer

The Red-Band trailer for Alien: Covenantis here. It may be Christmas, but the only bearded fat man in this trailer is Danny McBride. There is a lot of red though.

Covenant is the sequel to the much maligned Prometheus and a prequel to the entire Alien franchise (let’s just ignore Alien Vs Predator and Alien Vs Predator: Requiem). Where Prometheus went existential body horror, this looks like Ridley Scott is swinging the franchise well back to Alien‘s xenomorphic slasher roots, with some Forbidden Planet thrown in for good measure.

Scott has been a bit hit and miss with his films in the last few years (looking at you, Robin Hood) but he might just make up for Prometheus with a movie full of familiar alien faces.

The trailer doesn’t tell us us much but shows us plenty, set the the haunting cover version of Nature Boy by Aurora (if you’re feeling too little squeamish to watch the trailer but want to hear it, check it out here). Fassbender’s David android (maybe the same android, maybe just another of the same line) appears with the crew of the Covenant on the alien world and things go badly, fast. Without having much plot to go from, we can guess “humans + xenomorphs = mayhem & horror”.

The film is scheduled to be released on May 19, 2017 and has an all-star cast including Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace and Guy Pearce, (returning from Prometheus), and Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir and James Franco.

Warning! This is a Red Band Trailer: there’s scary shots, blood and gore, profanity and a shower scene, so very NSFW.

An old-school tabletop nerd, Baz has spent most of the last decade organising games conventions in Ireland (or as he calls them, "céiles with dice"), with brief spells in professional journalism and theatre. Like most people over a certain age, he can only remember three or four things in detail, which have been largely boiled down to Hellboy, the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, why Predator is the most perfect movie of all time, and France.